Technology Quotes

From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.

12000 quotes

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"Instruments extend the reach of human understanding."
Tycho Brahe
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"Each instrument we build extends our grasp of truth."
Tycho Brahe
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"Technology is the application of understanding to the solving of human problems."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Technology is nothing but the application of human wisdom to the natural world."
Leonhard Euler
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"Technology is the servant of humanity or its master, depending on our choices."
Leonhard Euler
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"Technology should serve humanity, not master it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"The best inventions imitate nature."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The greatest invention is the method of invention itself."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The instruments we build are merely extensions of our desire to understand."
Tycho Brahe
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"The greatest instruments ever built are those that extend human perception."
Tycho Brahe
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"To build an instrument is to build a bridge between mind and nature."
Tycho Brahe
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"Technology is merely applied mathematics; understanding one illuminates the other."
Leonhard Euler
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"Technology is the application of natural laws."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Technology amplifies human capability and responsibility."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"I build machines not to conquer nature, but to dance with her."
Archimedes
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"The lever knows no morality; it merely obeys the laws of physics."
Archimedes
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"Mathematics is the closest thing humanity has created to a universal language."
Leonhard Euler
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"Technology should serve humanity, not dominate it."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Technology is the externalization of human thought."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"To improve our instruments is to improve our understanding of God's creation."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The instruments we build become the extensions of our minds."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Technology is the extension of the mind's will into the material world."
René Descartes
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"Technology advances only when mathematical understanding advances it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Technology that lacks mathematical foundation will inevitably fail under scrutiny."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"The greatest invention is not the tool, but the understanding that creates it."
Archimedes
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"The screw is but a spiral line given the dignity of purpose."
Archimedes
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"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Technology advances faster than our wisdom to use it."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Technology is merely an extension of human thought, no more and no less."
Christiaan Huygens